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The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any

The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any more media attention?

orwin 3y ago
He did not found Tesla, did he?
- throw0101b 3y ago
  > He did not found Tesla, did he? There was a legal agreement that allows him to call himself that: > The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[12][13] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[14] Eberhard said that he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[15] > Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[12] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2022) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2022) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[16][17][14] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[18] > A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[19] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–200...
  - clipsy 3y ago
    Legal agreements do not supersede facts. He has the legal right to falsely claim he is a/the founder of Tesla, nothing more.
    - foogazi 3y ago
      Yes, either you founded it or not. Buying the rights to a title isn’t the same thing He did build the Tesla we know, that is not in question
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    In Ireland, Kilkenny is legally not a city, but there is actual legislation saying that it is _allowed to call itself a city_. This seems a similar principle, and it’s rather silly; ‘founder’ has a commonly-understood meaning.
- solarkraft 3y ago
  I'm not a general Musk defender (anymore), but yeah, he kind of did. Others incorporated the company, but he was key to its initial success.

The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any more media attention?

orwin 3y ago

He did not found Tesla, did he?

throw0101b 3y ago
> He did not found Tesla, did he? There was a legal agreement that allows him to call himself that: > The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[12][13] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[14] Eberhard said that he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[15] > Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[12] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2022) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2022) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[16][17][14] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[18] > A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[19] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–200...
- clipsy 3y ago
  Legal agreements do not supersede facts. He has the legal right to falsely claim he is a/the founder of Tesla, nothing more.
  - foogazi 3y ago
    Yes, either you founded it or not. Buying the rights to a title isn’t the same thing He did build the Tesla we know, that is not in question
- rsynnott 3y ago
  In Ireland, Kilkenny is legally not a city, but there is actual legislation saying that it is _allowed to call itself a city_. This seems a similar principle, and it’s rather silly; ‘founder’ has a commonly-understood meaning.
solarkraft 3y ago
I'm not a general Musk defender (anymore), but yeah, he kind of did. Others incorporated the company, but he was key to its initial success.